Given up on v20z power management

Well, I tried almost everything I could and neither Sun nor AMD could provide me with a solution to power management on the dual Opteron 248 v20z machine that I have here.
I'm now left with two solutions
1) remove a CPU (that'll drop the idle power down to about 100W collectively)
2) replace the machine with something that can do power management.
I'd like to say that I think it's a glaring oversight to not have any power management provisions, even in BIOS. Considering the diversity of sensors and management facilities in the service portal, it seems strange that one cannot even put the machine into 'sleep' mode.
Is Phoenix/Sun going to address this situation in the next BIOS update?
Paul.

this is unfortunately the wrong place to ask.
Your inquiry should be targeted to your reseller or
your Sun Sales representative.The sad thing is that I did. They subsequently pushed out the question through the various channels and nothing came back, this was several weeks ago now. I'll readdress my Sun rep about the matter.
:-(

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